The rate of natural disasters has increased fivefold since the 1970s due to climate change caused by human behaviors such as increased technology and industrial production. The aftermath of natural disasters costs billions of dollars and is predicted to become more widespread and powerful. In recent decades there has been an increase in the incidence […]
This article lists the top ten deadliest natural disasters in history, including floods, earthquakes, and cyclones. It also mentions that pandemics and famines have caused even higher death tolls. The article concludes by discussing the potential for even deadlier disasters, such as an asteroid impact or a genetically engineered plague. The world’s ten deadliest natural […]
Disaster taxa, such as fungi and lichens, are the first to colonize disaster areas. Lystrosaurus, a distant ancestor of modern animals, was the dominant land vertebrate for millions of years after the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Small mammals were the primary calamity taxa after the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. Coconut plants, fungi, lichens, mosses, and small arthropods […]
A new study from Denmark and Germany shows that women have a survival advantage over men even under the harshest conditions of life, including famines and epidemics. Women outlived men by an average of six months to four years during seven cataclysmic historical events between 1772 and 1939, with most of the advantage related to […]
